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 (DIR) Post #BAGuVwVi4bgXNO044O by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
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       I had to attend mandatory training on the use of “AI” in the workplace today and two of the rules they told us are:1) we can’t use AI to do our work for us, such as by asking it to reach conclusions that we might pass off as our own work, and2) we can use AI when we have more data than is reasonable for a person to analyze, by feeding the data into an LLM and asking it to identify patterns for us.When I tried to explain that these are literally the same thing, and that the latter is just pretending to be the sci-version of the former, the instructor got really uncomfortable and changed the subject.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAGuVwkbBFaw7YxxHE by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
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       It’s hard to convey the scale and scope of how cooked a generation of people are by LLM slop. “You can use AI to improve efficiency but make sure you double-check all its output to make sure it isn’t just hallucinating bullshit” thanks that’s actually more work and thus less efficient than not using an LLM at all.“You have to double-check LLM output, but also if the task is too complicated or complex to figure out on your own, you should use an LLM” thanks but if it’s too complicated to figure out on your own, then you can’t double-check the output.Just absolutely cooked.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAGuVx0YDwM4v2Qh8q by HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
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       Back in my day, we had a process for analyzing large quantities of data for patterns: statistics.It required first collecting a lot of data, and then parsing it, cleaning it, and sorting it. And then it required some knowledge of math or, failing that, at least the software that did the math for you.LLMs pretend to do the same thing for people who are too lazy to actually collect and parse data and don’t even know that there’s a math option. They just want to feed a bunch of text into an LLM and then pretend that the output is actually related to the input, rather than a hallucination of text that the LLM thinks is statistically correlated to the text you input.There will come a point at which those few people who have not cooked their brains on LLM slop will be the most important people in the world.